There are endless variations to the simple Chocolate Cookie.This soft and tasty chocolate cookies are quick and easy to prepare.
INGREDIENTS:
- All purpose flour – 1 cup
- Cocoa powder, unsweetened – 1/3 cup
- Sugar – 1 cup ( I used 1/2 cup)
- Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
- Baking powder – 1/4 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Butter, at room temperature – 3/4 stick/3 Ounce
- Egg – 1
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Water – 1/4 cup
- Walnuts, finely chopped – 1/2 cup
METHOD
- Premeasure and layout all the ingredients in your work place to make Chocolate Cookies.
- Grease a baking sheet lightly and evenly with butter or oil and keep it aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Using a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or with an electric hand-held mixer, beat butter at high speed until it is soft and smooth, about30 seconds. (if you don’t have Standing mixer, place butter in a large bowl and mix well using a hand mixer )
- Add sugar to the bowl and beat well, at medium speed, until the mixture is light and fluffy. Scarp down the bowl with a large rubber spatula once or twice in between.
- Now add the egg, beat in medium speed, only until well blended. Scrape down the bowl once or twice.
- Add All purpose flour, Baking powder, Baking soda, cocoa powder and Salt and beat until the mixture is smooth. Total mixing time is 1 minutes. Do not overbeat.
- Add and blend in the water and the vanilla essence.
- Finally blend in the chopped walnuts, at low speed.
- Take a small amount of cookie dough, shape it to a small ball. Repeat the same with remaining cookie dough.
- Flatten each of them and then shape with a cookie cutter or you can shape the cookie even with a glass. I used oval and round shaped cookie cutter. Try to make them all the same thickness for even baking.
- Arrange each of them in your greased baking sheet about 2 1/2 -inches apart.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the tops of the cookies look set and are just starting to turn brown.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2 or 3 minutes until they can be transferred easy to racks.
- Serve Homemade Chocolate cookies with Tea or Coffee.
